WORDS FOR
THIS WEEK
Monday 02/08/10 thru Friday 02/12/10
Pranks And Tricks
prepared by
ANDREW D. JAMIESEN
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Monday's Word chicanery = deception by cunning artifice or trickery Election rigging is one form of political chicanery.
Tuesday's Word legerdemain = sleight of hand; trickery Many consider séances and occultism instances of legerdemain.
Wednesday's Word rapscallion = mischievous trickster; rogue Some question whether ex-Governor Blagojevich is a sociopath or merely a rapscallion.
Thursday's Word skullduggery = unscrupulous activity; devious tricks From creative accounting and other skullduggery, Enron investors lost millions.
Friday's Word knavery = mischief or rascality Degas claimed that, "A picture... requires as much knavery, trickery and deceit as the perpetration of a crime."
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